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"Wait a while longer for that Hadley, and if he don't come, then go to meet Duffel." This suggestion was accordingly acted upon. After remaining nearly three hours longer for their victim, who came not, they repaired to the place of rendezvous, to report to their employer and superior, and finish up the other branch of the night's business.
I am inclined to think that the most bizarre incident I saw during the bombardment of the outer forts was the flight of the women inmates of a madhouse at Duffel. There were three hundred women in the institution, many of them violently insane, and the nuns in charge, assisted by soldiers, had to take them across a mile of open country, under a rain of shells, to a waiting train.
She shall be yours before the setting of the sun." Again the villains parted; but Duffel was not well pleased with the demand the ruffians had made of him, until a new thought struck him, and he said to himself: "That will do.
But how are we going to take him along on this hike? And what's he going to do when he gets there?" "He could help us on the troop cabin getting it ready," Tom suggested. Roy threw the letter aside in disgust. "That's a girl all over," he said, as he sulkily packed his duffel bag. "She doesn't think of what it means she just wants it done, that's all, so she sends her what-d'you-call-it edict.
Having her mind divided between the two acts, both of which must be done in the same breath, she did not aim the dagger with as much precision as under other circumstances she might have done, and the result was as already stated; the pistol, however, she safely secured; and when she saw Duffel feel for it, and perceived his disappointment and alarm at not finding it, she said: "Here it is, sir, and for once you are in my power!
Duffel, is not master of its own emotions; they come unbidden often, and not unfrequently remain when we would gladly have them depart." "May I trust that in those words there is hope for me that you would really banish old memories and old prejudices, and receive me as my heart continually pleads to be received?"
I hope, however, all will come right in the end." "God grant that it may." Here their intercourse was interrupted by the announcement that Duffel had called and inquired for Mr. Mandeville. They returned to the house, and the two gentlemen had a private interview to the following effect: "How is Eveline?" inquired Duffel. "I am happy to say she is very much better."
Two chests stood near the bunks and several guns rested upon pegs against the wall. Upon ropes stretched above the stove numerous duffel socks and mittens hung to dry. The Indian woman passed in and out through a passageway that led from the side of the room opposite the door at which he had entered and her kitchen was evidently on the other side of the passageway.
The Admiral had, moreover, drank the toast of "Vivent leg gueux" on various occasions, at the Culemberg House banquet, at the private table of the Prince of Orange, at a supper at the monastery of Saint Bernard's, at a dinner given by Burgomaster Straalen. He had sanctioned the treaties with the rebels at Duffel, by which he had clearly rendered himself guilty of high treason.
As we have already said, Duffel had taken a fancy to Miss Mandeville, with whom he was better pleased than with any other lady of his acquaintance. He called his passion love, but it was too sordid and selfish to be worthy of a name so sacred.
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